The management of the contexts (even their binaries) is part Ignition’s web server, which we call “Catapult”. The original idea with the contexts is that you could have multiple instances of contexts running simultaneously. Currently this feature is is somewhat stealth mode, as we feel that it would simply add confusion without some more GUI work. You can see some hints of how this feature might feel looking at the GCU.
So in a strict sense, you could say that everything under [tt]contexts/[/tt] are user files. You could even have contexts running as different versions, which makes me think that they shouldn’t be under the purview of a linux package manager. If you have an existing context, and put a newer *.gpkg file into the [tt]versions/[/tt] folder, you can use the GCU to upgrade your context to a newer version. We are going to add a command line interface to the GCU as well.
I think a good idea in the near term would be to add an “auto-upgrade” mode to Catapult, where it would notice newer *.gpkg file under [tt]versions/[/tt] and use it to upgrade all existing contexts, which in todays terms simply means the “[tt]main[/tt]” context.